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Today’s Gains Help Us Understand Yesterday’s Losses
Wednesday’s weakness was severely lacking in the scapegoat department. In other words, there were not big, obvious justifications for the spike in bond yields. Today’s rally had a suggestion: perhaps the market was nervous about a potential update to the inflation framework in today’s Powell speech. After all, it was the previous inflation framework update in 2020 (which basically concluded that rates could stay “lower for longer,” even if inflation was elevated) that was responsible for a lot of drama over the past 3 years. Although the 8:30am economic data helped a bit, most of today’s gains followed the 8:40am Powell speech. The absence of stock losses makes the Powell explanation all the more plausible (i.e. if bonds were rallying on weak data, we’d expect to see stocks lose some ground, and they didn’t).
Econ Data / Events
Retail Sales
0.1 vs 0.0 f’cast
Retail Sales Control Group
-0.2 vs 0.3 f’cast, 0.5 prev
Core PPI Monthly
-0.4 vs 0.3 f’cast, 0.4 prev
Core PPI Annual
3.1 vs 3.1 f’cast, 4.0 prev
big revision from 3.3 last month
Jobless Claims
229k vs 229k
Philly Fed
-4 vs -11 f’cast, -26.4 prev
Market Movement Recap
09:28 AM Modestly stronger overnight and catching a “no whammies” bid early. MBS up 9 ticks (.28) and 10yr yield down 6 bps at 4.475
12:10 PM Best levels of the day with MBS up nearly half a point and 10yr down 8.5bps at 4.45
02:59 PM Still near best levels. MBS up 3/8ths and 10yr down 8bps at 4.456
